indexers needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 173 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
indexers is the highest-scoring word from indexers, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 173 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in indexers — and it is indexers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in indexers produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are indexer, indexes, and reindex, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling indexers turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies, desire, diners, and sexier. For points, the strongest plays are deixes and dexies — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indexers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, diner and dines. For points, 6 words tie at 13 points, including desex, dexes and dexie.
Rearranging the letters in indexers produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dies and dine. For points, the strongest play is exed — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling indexers turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end and ids. For points, the strongest plays are dex and xed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in indexers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex, id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ex and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in indexers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in indexers and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
indexers is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for indexers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
indexers is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing indexers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is indexers, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from indexers earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in indexers produce 173 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.